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By Charlie Rafkin | January 16, 2013

San Jose State University announced on Tuesday that it will develop a pilot program to create three online introductory math courses in cooperation with the for-profit massive online open course provider Udacity, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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Students design turbine for use in African town

By Laura Weiss | January 16, 2013

Using only local supplies like aluminum, bricks, fuel, sand and wood, Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering plans to build a hydropower turbine in the Rwandan town of Musange this summer. The group's hydropower team has been building water turbines systems of small aluminum buckets that are forced into motion by a stream of water to generate power in Rwanda since 2008.

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Lu shares archaeological research

By Lily Fagin | January 16, 2013

Chinese archaeologist Lu Liancheng shared photographs of architectural sites and artifacts from the Shang, Zhou and Qin dynasties with students and faculty members on Tuesday night. Lu explained the significance of his own archaeological discoveries relative to China's history, emphasizing what artifacts can reveal about the places they were found. Speaking in Mandarin Chinese, Lu described the various religious, social and political systems in the three dynasties as he narrated slideshow with bronze vessels, jade sculptures, oracle bones and floor plans of homes or temples, Chinese professor Juwen Zhang translated his work into English. One of the most compelling parts of Chinese archeology is comparing different dynastical artifacts, which are often discovered at a single archeological site, Lu said. "Chinese history is layers piled up," he said. The lecture spanned nearly 1,400 years of Chinese history, and bounced between anecdotes of individual finds and generalizations about each dynasty and the relationships between them.

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Alpha Phi Alpha to face hazing sanctions

By Jasmine Sachar | January 16, 2013

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity has been sentenced to three terms of College probation following investigations into hazing allegations filed against the fraternity in October, according to a hazing report published by the Office of Judicial Affairs on Wednesday.

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Budget, venue affect PB concerts

By Michelle Deloison-Baum | January 15, 2013

Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Programming Board, which has not hosted a large concert since Avicii came in Winter 2012, plans to bring a "popular" artist to campus this Spring term, according to Programming Board public relations executive Zakia Lghzaoui '13. While some peer institutions have had more success inviting major artists to campus each year, each university's ability to bring in performers varies based on venue options, location, budget and reputation. Members of Programming Board have decided not to host a winter concert because of the difficulties involved in securing an indoor venue with enough space for the entire student body, director Alex Martin '13 said. "Leverone is used year-round by various sports groups and as far as we've been told, it is hard to convince these teams to let us borrow the field for the two plus days it takes to get concerts of this scale set up," he said.

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Profs. study Irene's effect on streams

By Rebecca Rowland | January 15, 2013

A group of Dartmouth researchers trying to assess the impact of Tropical Storm Irene on streams hopes that their results will help policymakers improve regulations for future storms, research group co-leader and geography professor Frank Magilligan said. The research team, which was headed by Magilligan and earth science professor Carl Renshaw, received a three-year, $345,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the study, following an initial $45,000 grant to conduct a damage assessment immediately after the August 2011 storm, Magilligan said. Irene provided an opportunity to gain insight into how natural systems respond to and recover from disturbances. "Irene was a really great example of an unprecedented flood in New England and that led to lots of geomorphic change things like hill slope erosion, landslides, overbank flooding and overbank deposition of material," he said. Magilligan's research also has implications for the effectiveness of "hard engineering," or human interference in order to produce faster stream recovery, he said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Karna Adam | January 15, 2013

Effective next school year, Lynn University will require all of its students to purchase iPad minis pre-loaded with summer reading and curriculum texts, Inside Higher Ed reported.

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Suit pending against College for coercion

By Sean Connolly | January 14, 2013

Former Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center resident Jeffrey Isaacs '99 has filed a lawsuit against the College and the Board of Trustees for alleged coercion, stress and abuse that left him in a state of mental shock and resulted in wrongful termination.

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Daily Debriefing

By Pascal Croak | January 14, 2013

Internet protesters associated with hacktivist group Anonymous took responsibility for shutting down the websites of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Department of Justice on Sunday, according to the Huffington Post.

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Daily Debriefing

By Kristin Yu | January 13, 2013

A study conducted by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education projects that by the year 2020, minority students will comprise nearly 45 percent of public high school graduates nationwide, marking a decline in white and black students, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Flu scares encourage student vaccinations

By Amelia Rosch | January 13, 2013

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Although the Center for Disease Control designated New Hampshire as a state with "widespread" influenza, the current flu season is not expected to have a major effect on Dartmouth students, according to College Health Services Director Jack Turco. Since the beginning of the flu season in December, 14 adults in New Hampshire have died of influenza as of Jan.

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Hanlon outlines College goals

By Ester Cross | January 13, 2013

Jin Lee / The Dartmouth Staff In his first public appearance at Dartmouth, President-elect Philip Hanlon '77 gave a glimpse into the agenda he will pursue when he assumes his role at the helm of the College.

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